Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our Lord 1768 ...
Subtitle: calculated for the meridian of Boston, but will answer without a sensible error for any part of New-England : illustrated with an elegant plate of the giants lately discovered in South America ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 10801
Publisher: Printed by Mein and Fleeming, and to be sold by John Mein at the London Book-store, north-side of King-Street
Published: 1767
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 44
Description: Woodcuts and text relate aspects of various indigenous peoples.
Notes: The first issue of Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, which continued until 1854.

Attributed to Benjamin West in the Dictionary of American biography and in Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 22 (1912): 34-35. The eclipse notes are identical, except for some varying calculations, with those in West's The New England almanack, or Lady's and gentleman's diary for 1768 (Providence). The calculations on the calendar pages vary (being for Boston rather than Providence), except for those of the moon's rising and setting, which are identical.

Advertised in the Massachusetts gazette and Boston news-letter, Oct. 22, 1767.

Signatures: A-D⁴ E⁶.

Booksellers' advertisements, including a proposal for printing the Boston chronicle, p. [42-44].

"Price half a dollar the dozen, and seven coppers single"

Woodcut and accompanying article depicts "giants lately discovered in South America."

Evans 10801

Drake, M.  Almanacs, 3163

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